Will's Interesting Links Page

[SilliamWhale]

http://www.slideshare.net/jbgruver/understanding-soil-organic-matter

This guys got loads on interesting powerpoints on his page.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/fertilized-world/charles-text

Nitrogen Fert Article

http://www.bcscd.com/?id=23

Burleigh County in ND. Always doing interesting stuff

http://www.exapta.com/knowledge/library.html

Matt Hagny's site. Good for John Deere nuts but also read the Biology of Soil Compaction and Seedbed Preparation articles.

Jill Clapperton on Soil biology

Dwayne Beck lecture

Kris Nichols soil biology (more detailed)

Rolf Derpsch Lecture

 

[JNG]

Thats alot of homework to set us for first thing Monday morning!

 

[SilliamWhale]

Some more:

Soil Biology Handbook
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/publications/files/soilbiolandmgt.pdf

Soil Health Telly
http://www.ustream.tv/new/search?q=soil+health

Soil health blog
http://soilhealth.net/blog/

Albrecht Fans
History of Soil Cation Balancing Theory
http://www.healthyag.com/albrecht3.html

Don Hubers Glyphosate Presentation
http://www.no-tillfarmer.com/file_open.php?id=148

American Agronomist blogs
http://hymark.blogspot.co.uk/
http://andgronomy.blogspot.ca/

Joel Gruver Powerpoints (good resource)
http://www.slideshare.net/jbgruver/presentations

 

[BSH]

Thanks Will for all the links. Hopefully they will be safe this time!

 

[Jim Bullock]

Will
You kept me up until 12.30 last night watching Dwayne Beck...compulsive viewing...so many thanks for the links... but I will not be following any tonight having had 12 hours on the tractor..

 

[marco]

I'll stick this in here,

http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0302hsted/covercropsbook.pdf

 

[SilliamWhale]

Not improbable

 

[Dan Powell]

A useful list of reasons why it can all go wrong, kind of like Rolf Derpsch's 10 point plan in reverse. Point 10 is key I think.

http://www.noble.org/ag/soils/notillfails/

 

[SilliamWhale]

A book on cover crops and green manures from a guy whos spent a few years with them:

http://foodgrainsbank.ca/uploads/Restoring the Soil.pdf

 

[Clive]

A useful list of reasons why it can all go wrong, kind of like Rolf Derpsch's 10 point plan in reverse. Point 10 is key I think.

http://www.noble.org/ag/soils/notillfails/

Great link and VERY right

It should be copulsory to read for anyone thinking of notil or claiming it doesn't work for them !

 

[BSH]

A book on cover crops and green manures from a guy whos spent a few years with them:

http://foodgrainsbank.ca/uploads/Restoring the Soil.pdf

Interesting link. Thanks.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Something else:

http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/reprints/August13_Lovel.pdf - Tractor impact on soil life

 

[SilliamWhale]

Quite a good site. especially in the publications bit

Any kiwi's got anything to say?

http://www.agknowledge.co.nz/publications#The Fertiliser Review

 

[SilliamWhale]

This blog has its merits

http://farmingsweetbay.wordpress.com/about/

 

[SilliamWhale]

One for the mob grazing/ soil health fans maybe?

Don't get from Amazon printed - book depository cheaper or kindle is

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cows-Save-P...79505836&sr=1-1&keywords=cows+save+the+planet

 

[Baling Hay]

This may be of interest:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/09/cover-crops-no-till-david-brandt-farms

 

[chewdles]

One for the mob grazing/ soil health fans maybe?

Don't get from Amazon printed - book depository cheaper or kindle is

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cows-Save-Planet-Improbable-Restoring/dp/1603584323/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379505836&sr=1-1&keywords=cows save the planet

Read the book. A very interesting read, although she does go on an anti Monsanto rant for a little too long, other then that I enjoyed it.

 

[SilliamWhale]

 

[SilliamWhale]

The water use bit is quite interesting potentially.

I've had a bit of a fright off cover crops this year and not planted any, but I think it was illogical. The cold spring exacerbated poor looking no till crops after covers and it made me turn off covers a bit. On reflection I think I should have placed some fert to buffer the cold spring. So next year will go back to covers and more experimentation after a blip.

 

[BSH]

Jury is out on cover crops here. Not convinced we are warm enough/ long enough daylight to get best use out of them in this country when used in the late summer/autumn. I don't really feel that I am getting the growth that I need at this stage, but will wait and see before I call it.